{"id":1611,"date":"2019-02-12T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brewtogether.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2021-07-31T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:05:07","slug":"basic-all-grain-brewing-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brewtogether.com\/2019\/02\/12\/basic-all-grain-brewing-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Step-By-Step All-Grain Brewing Instructions for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are basic instructions covering the main steps of all-grain brewing that were generously provided by BrewTogether user @dave<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extract brewing<\/a>, which is how most homebrewers get started, can be likened to baking a cake from a cake mix.  You begin with an extract<\/a> that has been created for you where the grains have already been steeped in hot water to extract the sugars and then boiled down into a thick syrup.  You dissolve this thick syrup in hot water and boil it along with hop additions to create your wort<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-grain brewing, which is how breweries make beer, is like baking a cake from scratch.  You begin with malted barley and other grain products that you steep in hot water at specific temperatures (mashing) and then rinse (sparging) to extract the sugars. You then boil this liquid along with hop additions to make your wort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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